Hal Lewis

@RepCohen So many nice people here on X…

After 19 years serving the 9th District, I made the decision to not run in the new gerrymandered districts created from it. If the courts restore the current 9th until 2028, I’ll remain a candidate, though that’s unlikely. Representing Memphis for 47 years has been the honor of my lifetime.

@KJVPopulist @RepCohen You are full of cr** Crawl back in your hole and shut up, until you have a clue of about which you speak

@RepCohen We know what you are, Zionist shill. Memphis will now be free of Israeli influence with congressman Justin Pearson

@jbjasper @memphisnews You are so full of cr** Nothing could be further from the truth

@memphisnews Forced out by the Memphis Democrats who are now demanded black representation.

Steve Cohen is retiring from Congress. What other elected leaders said commercialappeal.com/story/news/pol…

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list: 10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016 10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump 10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested 10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes 10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none) 10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?) 10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election 10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower 10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign 10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin 10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again 10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna 10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested 10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason 10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes 10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti 10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason 10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies 10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store 10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order 10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again 10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying 10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics 10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair 10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t) 10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted 10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way 11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information 1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool This man is clearly not well.

@geoff_calkins Who knew TN had so many Grand Wizards? @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn and Wizard wannabe @BrentTaylorTN

In case you missed it, my Sunday column on Memphis, gerrymandering, Brent Taylor, hypocrisy and the one place in the city where our three preposterous new districts meet. dailymemphian.com/subscriber/art…

@DailyMemphian You mean imperial Wizard Bill Lee

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a suite of bills that redistrict the state’s congressional map for the U.S. House of Representatives, and the filing period has reopened. dailymemphian.com/section/metroe…

@sambbenson @politico You mean Imperial Wizard Bill Lee

🚨 Tennessee becomes first state legislature to greenlight new congressional map post-Callais decision Gerrymandered map passed both chambers of the TN general assembly today Gov. Lee expected to approve it imminently politico.com/news/2026/05/0…

Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't. Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them. NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that. Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create. Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address: • It’s Biden’s fault • 48 hours • Two weeks • Some incoherent gibberish • We’ve won • We are way ahead of schedule • It’s a little excursion • We have obliterated them • We’ve knocked out all their ships • I could open up the Strait of Hormuz • Go get your own oil • They gave us a present • NATO are cowards • Something about Nuclear weapons • Allies are useless • We need allies • Nobody’s ever seen anything like it • Fake news • DEMOCRATS • Obama • More gibberish • I know more than the generals • Greatest foreign policy ever Am I missing anything?

@ChrisHerrington Doesn’t Ja have a significant shoe contract with Nike? Seems to me that playing, and playing as well and as much as he can, for the Griz - at least for now - would be in his and everyone’s best interest

After trade deadline, Morant remains but his era of Grizzlies basketball is already over dailymemphian.com/subscriber/sec…

Congratulations to the President on playing hardball to twist the Danes' arms and get them to agree to the things they already agreed to in a 1951 treaty.

The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US. When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour. The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules. That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War. This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order? Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means. US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds? If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy. If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts? If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US? It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks. Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes. Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him. If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.

@DailyMemphian Until and unless all that Mr. Lawton appropriately raises here is fully and transparently addressed, a “NO” vote is essential

Patrick Lawton, former Germantown City Administrator, writes: “When the City of Germantown proposes sweeping and permanent changes to our system of governance — such as this charter amendment — transparency is not optional, it is essential. But this is ... dailymemphian.com/article/59174

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world My English sub-titles 👇

@memgrizz @FedEx PLEASE do not trade Ja 🏀

〽️ission Sorted. London Dub Secured 🇬🇧🐻 Back in front of Grizz Nation on Wednesday 🎟️ bit.ly/4pE9Bvl

@PhilipLewis @ManUtd Glory, Glory indeed ⚽️

If there is such a thing as @ManUtd perfect day, this is it! Glory Glory!

There is no coherent ideology behind @realDonaldTrump's imperialism. As such, it will attract only the worst people – the greediest and most mendacious reprobates that American society can churn up, @JosephEStiglitz warns. bit.ly/4bqDFXH

@Espngreeny Northwestern in 1995

Please help me complete this sentence: What has happened at #Indiana football the last two seasons is the most magical college football story since …. ?

@TheJonahDylan Almost all the disconnect you note was fueled by local talk show loud mouths

Can say pretty confidently: There was no program in the country that had a higher disconnect in terms of sentiment between local/national fans and media than Memphis under Ryan Silverfield.